BTW, a friend of mine is v. worried (not having seen any of his work except Hulk) that Eric Bana will be Timothy Daltonish as Bond. I think she is wrong, but still think that it should be Clive Owen. Clearly.
The picture of Clive Owen in the lastest EW under the "Who Will Be The Next Bond?" column is awful. Honestly, I didn't know it was possible to make him look bad, but they managed it.
Yes, perhaps I went a little far with one particular hypothetical scenario, but it amuses me to no end.
Now I'm imagining Manchurian Candidate 2: The Revenge, starring Carrot Top as The Candidate.
Now I'm imagining Manchurian Candidate 2: The Revenge, starring Carrot Top as The Candidate.
See, that wouldn't work, cause 1-800-COLLECT would take him out almost immediately.
The problem in casting Bond is that he has to be rugged enough to be an action adventure hero, be sophisticated enough to make the tux/baccarat scenes work, and have enough charisma for the women to fall all over him. Not easy to find that combo.
I only know Bana's work from Troy. He has the rugged and the charisma, but not so certain about the sophisticated.
Aren't you supposed to?
No, you're supposed to swoon and want to be him/do him. The villains are supposed to fear him. I don't think they give an age in the books, except that he's probably been all the way through the war. I don't think the character actually ages at all in the books -- AFAIK time doesn't pass for him.
He has the rugged and the charisma, but not so certain about the sophisticated.
I'm not even sure he has the charisma. At least, I've never found him particularly compelling to watch.
I'm not even sure he has the charisma.
I'll give you that. I'm not the best judge on the type of man that would appeal to women....
unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
In that book that Welles did with Peter Bogdonovich, IIRC, Welles said that the rosebud story was pretty well-known when CK came out because a disgruntled servant had passed it to the gossip magazines. Although, now that I think about it, I may have read that somewhere else.
I'm a big fan of the original Manchurian Candidate. Y'all think it's worth seeing the remake?
Welles said that the rosebud story was pretty well-known when CK came out because a disgruntled servant had passed it to the gossip magazines.
::makes note to be sure that all servants that know intimate details of my sex-life are gruntled::
I sent her a picture of Clive Owen from
Croupier
thinking that it ought to work. (He was in the tux -- but with dark rather than blond hair.)
Still -- thinks he looks too thuggish. Well, it doesn't really matter -- since he doesn't want to be Bond.
No, you're supposed to swoon and want to be him/do him.
I forget -- not everyone has the same swoon be/do criteria I do.
Any man that's been given official clearance to be able to kill at 25 -- I'm impressed.
